[Openchrome-devel] [Bug 94473] DRM / KMS bootup error on VX900 platform

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94473

--- Comment #16 from Kevin Brace <kevinbrace at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Benno Schulenberg from comment #12)

Hi Benno,

> 
> Just a note: most of the code comes originally from VIA, from their
> engineers.  It was open-sourced probably somewhere in 2003.  Early in 2004
> the Unichrome project picked it up and fixed many bugs, mainly done by Luc
> Verhaegen and Thomas Hellström.  That commit history was not preserved when
> things moved to openchrome in 2005.  Since then some code was written by
> Ivor Hewitt, Jon Nettleton, Bartosz Kosiorek, and James Simmons.  But to
> blame any of these openchrome developers for the state of the code would
> be... unfair.
> 
> (Just a note, just to put things a bit in perspective.)

The comment I made about James Simmons' code was meant to be my take on the DRM
/ KMS code he wrote, and I did not necessarily mean to criticize the previous
OpenChrome developers.
That being said, I have been dealing with OpenChrome code since July 2015 or
so, and I have not particularly liked the code quality of OpenChrome.
The code maintainability does affect the sustainability of the project, to some
extent.
Many of the commits I have done so far mainly deals with cleaning the code and
making it easier to understand.
That's all I will say for now.

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